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Australia achieved 16 world records and 35 Paralympic Records with performances from such athletes as: Todd Hodgetts (Shot Put), Kelly Cartwright (Long Jump), Susan Powell (Individual Pursuit), Bradley Mark (10m Air Rifle), Brenden Hall (400m Freestyle) and Blake Cochrane (100m Breaststroke). In total Australia had 93 medallists of which 25 ...
Record Athlete Nationality Date Games Place Ref. T11-13 3:28.65 Carlos Lopes José Alves Jose Gameiro Gabriel Potra Portugal 24 October 2000 XI Sydney, Australia [43] T35-38 3:38.92 Abbes Saidi Mohamed Charmi Fares Hamdi Farhat Chida Tunisia 27 September 2004 XII: Athens, Greece [43] T42-47 3:27.00 Danny Andrews Raphew Reed Jr Ryan Fann Brian ...
Below is a list of current Australian records in athletics as ratified by the national governing body, Athletics Australia.There are two types of Australian records. An Australian record is the best time recorded anywhere in the world by an athlete or team holding Australian citizenship whilst an Australian All Comers record is the best time recorded in Australia by an athlete or team.
Australia 17 September 2016 Paralympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [40] [42] T37 1:57.17 Michael McKillop Ireland 21 July 2013 IPC World Championships: Lyon, France [17] [40] T38 1:55.75 Nathan Riech Canada 27 July 2023 Canadian Track and Field Championships: Langley, Canada [43] 1:53.87 Nathan Riech Canada 9 June 2019 Portland Track Festival
Athletics events have been held at every Paralympic Games. At the end of the Beijing Games, athletics was Australia's most successful medal sport.Since 2001, Athletics Australia has the responsibility of preparing the Australian athletics team for the Paralympic Games. .
Lisa Llorens from the Australian Capital Territory, won a gold and a bronze in track and field events. [17] [18] [19] Lachlan Jones from Melbourne Victoria, competed in the 100 m wheelchair race and won the gold medal. This came after two false starts and a protest in the medal race.
James Michael Apsley Turner, OAM (born 22 May 1996) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and soccer player with cerebral palsy. He has represented Australia as part of the Australia Paralympic soccer team, the ParaRoos, and was its player of the year in 2013. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the Men's 800m T36 in a world record time of 2:02 ...
At the 1976 Paralympic Games, Freeman won a medal in 5 of the 6 events in which she competed in. Freeman competed in a number of track and field events including shot put, the javelin, discus and sprint races and achieved a world record for every event in which she won a gold medal.